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The Parkes 64m Radio Telescope in Australia (Binarysequence/Wikimedia Commons)

Breakthrough Listen’s Search For ETI Gets Boost

May 15, 2018

The Breakthrough Listen initiative’s search for extra-terrestrial intelligent life just got a big boost thanks to hardware upgrades at Australia’s Parkes Radio Telescope. The upgraded equipment will help scientists conduct faster surveys of the sky and will provide an ability to scan the Milky Way’s disk and bulge in unparalleled detail. The Australian radio telescope […]

60 Billion Earth-like Planets Could Exist in Milky Way Galaxy

July 2, 2013

A new study finds there could be about 60 billion Earth-sized habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs – the most common stars in our universe – in the Milky Way galaxy. That’s more than twice as many potentially habitable planets than was previously thought. The new report from two Chicago area universities finds that clouds surrounding […]

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